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by p4ul 401 days ago
If the conclusion is "be transparent", I'm strongly supportive.

And moreover, I would be even more supportive if we found a way to change the incentives for tenure and promotion such that reproducibility was an important factor in how we make decisions about grants, tenure, and promotion.

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Just make it even more cutthroat than it already is. Replacing one hackable incentive system with another will just produce a new set of hacks.

Disclosure: I left academia before I had to worry about any of this.